The president of the UDI has strongly denounced Europe 1 the actions of the Turkish president, who decided an offensive against the Kurds in northern Syria. He denounces an "annexation" and recalls Erdogan's "troubled game" with Daesh.

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Before France-Turkey, Monday night at the Stade de France, Jean-Christophe Lagarde was one of those who demanded that the match be canceled because of the offensive conducted by Turkey against the Kurds in northern Syria. After the match, after which the Turkish players made a military salute, the anger of the president of the IDU did not fall. He calls for sanctions and strongly denounces the attitude of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. "It's an assassin," he said forcefully Tuesday morning on Europe 1.

Yet the Tricks are historically the allies of the French, by their membership in NATO. "They are formally our allies, but we must remember that Mr. Erdogan played with Daesh a very troubled game for years where he let for example the oil of Daesh circulate through Syria and allowed the financing of Daesh", recalls Jean-Christophe Lagarde. "We remember the images of the city of Kobane where the Kurds were trying to resist Daesh a few tens of meters from the Turkish border and where the Turkish guns were watching the Kurds get slaughtered without reacting. more prompt today to slaughter civilian populations who are close to us. "

"It even pushes these unfortunate Kurds to ally with Bashar al-Assad"

The American president also takes his rank. "And all this because Mr. Trump is no longer in a nutshell, he's the one who pulled out the American troops that were protecting the Kurds so far from Mr. Erdogan's desires." And all that creates a a perfectly unworthy and dangerous situation, "he says irritably." Dangerous because we are seeing supporters of Daesh spinning that the Kurds were the only ones to hold prisoner. Dangerous because tomorrow when there will be a war to be made, who can be allied with the Americans with the Westerners? To have more than 10.00 dead to fight Daesh, that's the Kurds today. Well, we do not hesitate to let them down, to abandon them. "

According to Jean-Christophe Lagarde, Turkey and its president violates purely and simply international law. "What right is it today to invade Syria?" What right does it push its tanks, its planes, in a territory over which it has no right? Turkey has not been attacked, Turkey was not in danger.It is purely and simply the annexation of part of Syria is ongoing, "denounces the deputy of Seine-Saint-Denis. "It even pushes these unfortunate Kurds to ally with Bashar al-Assad, who himself, once the Turkish danger is removed, will not hesitate to massacre these populations."